Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape
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Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape
Jenn RileyHead, Carolina Digital Library and Archives
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elings & Waibel, “Metadata for All” http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1628/1543
RDARDA? RDA?
DCMI Singapore Frameworkhttp://dublincore.org/documents/singapore-framework/
RDA
This is important too.
FRBR
RDA
DCMI Resource Model(from the DCMI Abstract Model)
http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/
Do we need a new one of these?
What if the atomistic, formal expression of data becomes widespread?
And let’s be sure to avoid this….http://xkcd.com/915/
xkcd comic by Randall Munroe
Formality of expression
Proximity to actual im
plementation
Conceptual model
Datamodel
Data dictionaries
Element/property
vocabularies
Cataloging rules
Controlled vocabularies
Binding
basis for
basis for
Data validity
rules
data expressed in data expressed in
data
exp
ress
ed in
data
ex
pres
sed
in
basis for
But, wait. That doesn’t explain how different communities use these, or how they build upon one another.
And the boxes still aren’t mutually exclusive.
Element/property vocabularies
WorldInformation specialists
Libraries/archives/museums
OR
Element/property
vocabularies
Element/property
vocabularies
Element/property
vocabularies
World
Information specialists
Libraries/archives/museums
A new framework will emerge.
But we need to help articulate it.
Thank you!
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